| SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice as a grant to conduct a study of all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1101 | Engross
Sine Die | Conforms county debt limit statements law to permit counties to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for an exemption from examination from the insurance commissioner; provided that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB362 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Establishes the homeless services fund. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB838 | Engross
Sine Die | Reestablishes the Long-Term Care Commission within the University of Hawaii College of Social Sciences' Social Science Research Institute to identify further needed reforms of Hawaii's long-term care system. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Zero Waste Initiative to, among other things, manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy. Establishes the Packaging Waste Advisory Council. Allows the establishment of a nonprofit producer responsibility organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB924 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB292 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes general contractors entering into or under contracts in the State for work on buildings, structures, or other private construction works liable for debt incurred by subcontractors for wages due to claimants for performance of labor in the contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1415 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to design and administer an Electric Vehicle Charging System Loan Program to provide loans to certain applicants who install eligible electric vehicle charging systems. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB948 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to coordinate the removal of hazardous albizia trees that potentially threaten public and private land. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB801 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a qualified internship income tax credit for employers of qualified interns. Establishes an application and certification process for the tax credit, to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Requires reports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1498 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from disturbing or acquiring for development certain wetland or dryland tarogrowing lands. Establishes a taro lands classification for public lands. Permits structures for loi or mala taro fields in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires license plates to include okina in the word "Hawaii". Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23, and state building construction projects bid after 6/30/24, to provide one or more universal changing accommodations at each family restroom; provided that state building constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the preservation and protection of Honolua bay and Lipoa point. Directs DLNR to create the Honolua bay and Lipoa point subaccount within the special land and development fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the McKinley Community School for Adults to work with Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice to provide counseling services for incarcerated women participating in the education and reentry program for incarcerated women that is developed and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB403 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the designation of black coral as the official gem of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1415 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the legislature no later than December 31 of that year. Effective 6/30/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish the native Hawaiian supportive housing pilot program on the Leeward Coast of Oahu to provide individual or shared micro housing units and services to native Hawaiian beneficiaries who are ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB284 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the technology services consolidation working group to, by 6/30/2024, decommission the office of enterprise technology services' data center located in the Kalanimoku building; relocate the entire office of enterprise technology services dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB159 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the notarization requirement for renewals of liquor licenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB722 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the workforce safety and health special fund. Directs certain fees and penalties to be deposited into the special fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB463 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each county to adopt, no later than 6/30/2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by 7/1/2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB130 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows state courts discretion to not enforce a child-custody determination of a foreign country if the child-custody law of the foreign country imposes capital punishment for apostasy, religious or political beliefs, or homosexuality, and a parent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB139 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, including lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and excluding lands ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB723 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, commissions, special committees, and select committees. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB88 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year program at the University of Hawaii to study sand movement patterns and coastal erosion along the coast between Sunset Beach Park and Ehukai Beach Park on the North Shore of Oahu, including the impact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB763 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects under certain circumstances from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except fees and costs payable to the Hawaii Housing Finance and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1509 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund to be used to preserve and provide long-term access to other materials preserved at the state archives, in addition to government records. Establishes additional funding sou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB567 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts certain projects for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise taxes. Makes permanent the exemption of certain housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fee requirements. Ensures that the $6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1472 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the expansion and enhancement of the suicide crisis hotline and crisis management services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES) Crisis Helpline; expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1182 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement for lessees to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa agricultural park. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1521 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to create an integrated land use study for the use of land within the agricultural district. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of agriculture to acquire property for immediate or future use. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB351 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for owners of condominium units whose condominium association is increasing maintenance fees or imposing a special assessment to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds out of the Boating Special Fund for full-time equivalent positions under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at small boat harbors statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB965 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB745 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the development of a database and data portal from data sources detailed in the May 2022 report on social vulnerability to climate change in Hawaii, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds for the maintenance and updating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1191 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Community Development Authority for statewide planning, designing, and constructing of various transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development. Authorizes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1406 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a two-year study on the maximized use of recycled asphalt across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB640 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. Clarifies when the requirements for motor vehicle insurance coverage are satisfied. Provides that the counties may adopt ordinances to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB668 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts the physical therapy compact effective 7/1/3025. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the compact. Requires applicants for physical therapist or physical therapist assistant licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Health Committee |
| SB951 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
